It is called ‘value-added’ and it really is the only sane immigration standard. If you cannot contribute, you cannot come, period. Deal with it, Muslim refugees.
Dammit Trump! No More H1B job-killing, wage-killing, work-hour-when-you-have-a-job exploding immigrants!!!
The massive flooding of the engineering markets with cheap (and bad) labor from India has KILLED MY CAREER.
I thought bringing in Jeff Sessions would lead to action on this front! It’s a huge part of why I voted for Trump!
Congress can simply overturn the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
When I was a kid my father had a job offer in Australia. In order to emigrate there you had to prove you’d be able to support yourself and had a job. And the job had to be one that the Australian government was willing to accept an immigrant to fill. I don’t know what it’s like today but back in the 60’s you couldn’t just pick up and move Down Under because you felt entitled to do so. I don’t see why we shouldn’t do that here...at a minimum.
H-1B is merit based and killing domestic STEM careers. This idea sucks bigly. The default position seems the the USA, current population 330 million, desperately need immigrants. That is a joke. This mindset has to change.
The RAISE Act being proposed by Sen. Tom Cotton is exactly the kind of immigration reform we need.
Reducing legal immigration and restricting it to people who will be an asset to the nation.
The Rubio, McCain, Graham, Flake type, amnesty for illegal aliens, represents only the Chamber of Commerce and not the citizens.
Every Senator that voted for the Gang of Amnesty bill needs to be Cantorized. Flake, Heller, Hatch and Corker are up in 2018.
Graham and Alexander in 2020.
McCain, Murkowsky, Hoeven and Rubio have to wait until 2022 because their voters rewarded them with another term after their treasonous vote for amnesty.
Why should taxpayers subsidize cheap labor for those who hire illegals by having to pay for their food stamps, rent subsidies, schooling for their children, criminal investigations and incarceration? Let those employers who hire illegal aliens pay them enough to take care of them and their families and don’t expect taxpayers to foot those bills.
That is the way it used to be. In order to come to this country back in the day, you had to either have a sponser, or proof that you had a job and would not become a drag on the people of this country.
You also had to be healthy, have papers, and were determined to become an American citizen of the USA.
• Mexico welcomes only foreigners who will be useful to Mexican society:
– Foreigners are admitted into Mexico “according to their possibilities of contributing to national progress.” (Article 32)
– Immigration officials must “ensure” that “immigrants will be useful elements for the country and that they have the necessary funds for their sustenance” and for their dependents. (Article 34)
– Foreigners may be barred from the country if their presence upsets “the equilibrium of the national demographics,” when foreigners are deemed detrimental to “economic or national interests,” when they do not behave like good citizens in their own country, when they have broken Mexican laws, and when “they are not found to be physically or mentally healthy.” (Article 37)
– The Secretary of Governance may “suspend or prohibit the admission of foreigners when he determines it to be in the national interest.” (Article 38)
No. We have far too many unemployed software engineers, for example, as it is. Indian software engineers aren’t better in any way, and are provably worse in some ways.
I predict that John McLame and his chihuahua Lindsey will call it dead on arrival...
This is basically a call to repeal the insane Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and implement an immigration policy that focuses on what is best for America.
Not much chance at all of getting enough RINO and Neo-Con support to overcome democrat opposition.
Democrats want immigrants from the bottom of the barrel so they can mold them with handouts and preferential treatment.
Give engineers and the like from outside America an extra incentive to be here in the first place.
That keeps jobs domestic while encouraging that ONLY the very best and competent foreign workers are brought here.
Fly into Toronto’s Pearson airport and you had better have money, a reason for visiting Canada and no intention to work or study there unless you have the visas—or they turn you around, put you back on a plane and send you home.
THIS is an immigration standard I think any conservative would be okay with. Show income of 100k+, personal net worth of $20k, no public assistance for five years of living in US, and passing standard EOSL and citizenship tests and you get your citizenship.
See this is what cracking me up with the press.
So Trump call’s for reform for Legal immigration ...to make it merit based that your must be value added to the country. Your must be able to support your self...so it a call for a higher standard on who we allow into the country legally... he said we need to have the same standards and all the rest of the world has
And as for illegals it still deport them. Because by definition they’re not merit-based
And how does the press spin it?...well because the press does not differentiate between illegal and legal immigration and “reform” is the lefts buzz word for amnesty... the press tries to spin it as if Trump calling for immigration reform is Trump calling for amnesty it’s like the press can’t even hear the man own words... it’s absurd Bizarro world stuff
The socialist-democrats don’t want this. They want cheap, ignorant, indentured, and compliant low cost labor.
They get that labor force through importing illegals and exploitation of legal alien work visas.
This is why the wealthiest people in the US are card-carrying socialist-democrats.
The socialist-democrats wanted hillary because she would have implemented chinese communism in the US.
The RINO-republicans wanted Bush because he would have implemented south american socialism/fascism in the US.
We dodged a lethal bullet shot from both of them by electing Donald Trump as our POTUS.
Music to my ears.
How it works in New Zealand:
You score points based on ENGLISH
You score points based on job EXPERIENCE
You score points based on level of Education
You must pass a HEALTH screening
You must pass a police BACKGROUND CHECK
If you apply for the skilled labor visa, you must have a LEGITIMATE JOB OFFER to be accepted and YOUR SKILL MUST BE NEEDED IN NZ:
Their available visas are not unlimited.
I favor this system, which is also used by Canada and Australia.
Sounds to me as if Trump just wants to ENFORCE EXISTING IMMIGRATION LAW which is merit based.